What's going on in your shop? Show us whats going on, and talk a bit about your work!

[Dimitar Popov]

Me featuring the slavic squat on the new workbench and the workbench in its place.

You have my Slavic approval :d. Awesome bench and workspace

 

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I set up a nice anvil from a 60 lb piece of railroad track (I weighed it, not a guess). Did my first real forging session today with some rebar to make some tongs. Not done yet but turning out okay for my first hammering experience. I stripped the varnish off of the handle of my harbor freight cross pein hammer but it still left a blister on my hand right before my pointer finger.

Veteran smiths of bladeforums, is the blister from a bad handle shape, improper grip, or simply a first time forging callus?

You can grip the hammer far more loosely than you think.

 

[12345678910]

Alright...had a little basement flooding issue when the power was out this morning, but we're squared away now. Got the enamel laid in...looking pretty sweet

A baked in hard enamel, or just paint ?


So if you don't have a sump pump running the basement gets wet ?
That's a poor way to build a house. You wonder how that gets approved.

 

[WValtakis]

A baked in hard enamel, or just paint ?


So if you don't have a sump pump running the basement gets wet ?
That's a poor way to build a house. You wonder how that gets approved.

Yes, baked in hard enamel.

And yes, in the winter if the ground is saturated we get water in the basement...house was built in 1935 for what that's worth.

 

[eric brinkerhoff]

A couple just in from Peters! Both are s60v! That big belly scinner Style is becoming a thing for me for sure!

 

[TheEdge01]

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[N.W. Gean]

A couple just in from Peters! Both are s60v! That big belly skinner Style is becoming a thing for me for sure!

I find a drop point with a large belly to be extremely versatile.

 

[C_Claycomb]

Finished these two to give my dad for Christmas. What I think could be called a petty, and a carving knife.
I had made him a little 12C27 paring knife like the petty, but he uses it for all his veg-prep needs, in preference to the Murray Carter santoku I got him 20 years ago, which is nice, but it takes a beating, really needs to be thinned but I haven't been able to pry it away from him long enough to take home for a re-grind. Maybe this will change that.

These are AEB-L, 61HRC, ground to 0.006" measured 1/16th up from the cutting edge. Thinnest anything I have made to date. Handles are black paper Micarta and K&G stabilised curly redwood from here in the UK, harvested from the grounds of my old high school. Sheaths are thin leather to take up minimal space in a cutlery drawer, are also fitted with button magnets so they don't slide off too easy.
DSC08517 by Last Scratch, on Flickr

DSC08505 by Last Scratch, on Flickr

 

[Cliff Carter Knives]

Been a while since I posted a few updates. Some of the knives I’ve made and my last diver in progress:




Happy holidays to you all!

 

[Taz]

3" Alabama Damascus upswept skinner, black and red G10 guard and spacer and snakewood handle. Customers last name is etched on both sides of the blade.

Picked up a used NC BigFace 75# anvil today as well, time to start forging!!

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

Just got a grinder and forge.

The sgian dubh is 1095, not the best starter steel I know. I have a thermocouples, Rutland, and parks 50. Ground the tip too thin so I sort of expect it to not survive the quench but I don't have anything to lose and maybe it'll make it.

 

[Taz]

I have the same FastBack, you will love it!!

 

[Michael Black]

Just got a grinder and forge.
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The sgian dubh is 1095, not the best starter steel I know. I have a thermocouples, Rutland, and parks 50. Ground the tip too thin so I sort of expect it to not survive the quench but I don't have anything to lose and maybe it'll make it.
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I've heard great things about those grinders! Also I like the lines on the sgian dubh. I've had 2 of those in the works myself for probably a year but I just seem to keep bumping them down in priority. Gotta change that!

 

[Lorien]

I have the coolest leather stamp of all times now! Made from titanium by the crafty and clever WValtakis

 

[Colby L.]

Just finished this one up for my parents for Christmas. My first hidden tang/WA handle. While not perfect I am very happy with how it turned out. I feel like I am finally getting my surface finish on the steel dialed in. 52100 @ 61.5 and Australian blackwood with micarta spacers. The lighting wasn't the best for photos but I had to get some between snow storms!

 

[eric brinkerhoff]

S60V and kirinite! Nobody likes kirinite but me, the guys at work don't like it and other people around here don't like it much but I make knives however I want!

 

[Richard338]

S60V and kirinite! Nobody likes kirinite but me, the guys at work don't like it and other people around here don't like it much but I make knives however I want!View attachment 1706909View attachment 1706910View attachment 1706911

It looks great to me!
It could be the angle of the photo, but my eye questions the alignment of the mosaic pin, just a little.

 

[eric brinkerhoff]

It looks great to me!
It could be the angle of the photo, but my eye questions the alignment of the mosaic pin, just a little.

Yes it does look out of line depending on the angle, that's one of the reasons I quit using 3 pins. In the middle where the handle is thicker if you rotate it ,it seems to go above or below the line of the other two pins! Same with the lanyard tube!

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

S60V and kirinite! Nobody likes kirinite but me, the guys at work don't like it and other people around here don't like it much but I make knives however I want!View attachment 1706909View attachment 1706910View attachment 1706911

I've got nothing against krinite.

 

[Richard338]

Yes it does look out of line depending on the angle, that's one of the reasons I quit using 3 pins. In the middle where the handle is thicker if you rotate it ,it seems to go above or below the line of the other two pins! Same with the lanyard tube!

Yes, sometimes I play around with the alignment. Actually on a line doesn't always look right, sometimes it seems better to follow a curved line with the flow of the overall shape.
Nice job in any case.